Essentially, the tragedy of past revolutions has been that, sooner or later, their doors closed, “at ten in the evening.” The most critical function of modern technology must be to keep the doors of the revolution open forever! –Murray Bookchin
Part of the dissolutionary strategy advocated by C4SS is called Open Source Insurgency or embracing institutional, organizational or technological innovations — low-tech or high-tech — that render centralized or authoritarian governance impossible (or so damn costly as to be regarded as impossible). One of these innovations is Tor. And, so, C4SS maintains an always-on Tor Node. But we need your help.
C4SS has maintained a Tor relay node for over three years. This is our second quarter fundraiser for the project. Every contribution will help us maintain this node until July 2015. Every contribution above our needed amount will be earmarked for our second quarter fundraiser.
We encourage everyone to consider operating a Tor relay node yourself. If this, for whatever reason, is not an option, you can still support the Tor project and online anonymity with a $5 donation to the C4SS Tor relay node.
C4SS maintains a Tor relay node with a freedom friendly data center in the Netherlands. The relay is part of a global network dedicated to the idea that a free society requires freedom of information. Since June 2011 C4SS has continuously added nearly 10 Mbps of bandwidth to the network (statistics). Although we can’t know, by design, what passes through the relay, it’s entirely likely that it has facilitated communications by revolutionaries, agorists, whistleblowers, journalists working under censorious regimes and many more striving to advance the cause of liberty and the dissolution of authority.
If you believe, as we do, that Tor is one of the technologies that makes both state and corporate oppression not only obsolete, but impossible, please consider operating as a Tor relay or donating to support the C4SS node.
The State is damage, we will find a route around!
- Internet Security Is Our Responsibility
- Tor: The Onion Router
- Tor Is For Everyone: Why You Should Use Tor
- 7 Things You Should Know About Tor
- Using PGP Encryption To Communicate Privately
- Keeping Your Cryptocurrency Safe
- Dark Wallet: New Weapons for Old Wars
If you are interested in learning more about Tor and how to become a relay node yourself, then check out our write up on the project: Stateless Tor.
Bitcoin is also welcome:
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